• Canon Bernard Iddings Bell and the postmodern landscape architecture of Heatherwick and Jencks

    Updated: 2012-09-23 19:46:28
    I visited the V&A this week, to see the Heatherwick Studio Exhibition, and looked at two books in the V&A Library. Heatherwick’s exhibition and book complement one another. TS Eliot proclaimed Rudyard Kipling a great hymn writer on the basis of a single hymn. Kipling’s Re­cess­ion­al is below. Heatherwick can be recognized as a great [...]

  • Ultra-safe policing in London public parks

    Updated: 2012-09-16 07:02:11
    Britain’s police forces have been criticised for heavy-handed policing. From time to time, policing shows every sign of being based on prejudice and self interest tempered with sloth and incompetence. We have had the Birmingham Six, the Guildford Four, the Maguire Seven, Jean de Menezes, Ian Tomlinson, Bloody Sunday and this week’s Hillsborough Report. They [...]

  • Political Landscapes

    Updated: 2012-09-10 12:46:29
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  • Should urban design start with architecture, landscape, infrastructure – or music?

    Updated: 2012-09-07 07:16:38
    The highwaymen seem to have won so that modern (or should it be Modernist?) urban design begins with the layout of roads. The gaps are then filled with blocks and the SLOAP is slurped with slabs and shrubs (SLOAP = Space Left Over After Planning). This is how Concrete Jungles are made. ‘Ugh’. So let’s [...]

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